NCAA Record broken

[chseagle]

UConn Women broke the NCAA Record for consecutive wins in NCAA Basketball with their 89th straight victory.

[Welpe]

Cue NCAA Men's v. Women's argument in 3...2...1...

[BillyMac]

I don't care what the eighty-nine wins in a row were for. Even if were a game of "Chutes and Ladders", that's a pretty impressive feat. It is what it is.

[Adam]

To me, it's like the streak of national wrestling championships Iowa ran up in the 80s. It's impressive, but it's not that impressive.

Geno is no Coach Wooden.

Wooden's record stands.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Geno is no Coach Wooden. Wooden's record stands.

"My grandfather would have been thrilled. He would have been absolutely thrilled to see his streak broken by a women’s basketball team. And he thought, especially in the last 10 years, that the best basketball was played at the collegiate level, and it wasn’t by the men." (Greg Wooden, grandson of former UCLA coach John Wooden)

[just another ref]

It just total apples and oranges. If there's some guy who wins 90 NCAA games of chess in a row, does he break the record?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

"My grandfather would have been thrilled. He would have been absolutely thrilled to see his streak broken by a women’s basketball team. And he thought, especially in the last 10 years, that the best basketball was played at the collegiate level, and it wasn’t by the men." (Greg Wooden, grandson of former UCLA coach John Wooden)

Sorry, but I don't buy it. Would Wooden have been thrilled? Probably. But I do not buy that women are playing the best basketball. Your average NAIA division II school would destroy the UConn women's team.

It's an impressive streak, I'm not saying it isn't. I enjoy watching girls and women play basketball, but whether it's "better" is purely subjective and aesthetic. By any objective standard, it's not true.

As some caller said on the radio, "The women are better at the fundamentals. The fundamentals are boring."

[Adam]

Originally Posted by just another ref

It just total apples and oranges. If there's some guy who wins 90 NCAA games of chess in a row, does he break the record?

+1

By the same token, they need at least 30 more wins to tie the record. Cael Sanderson won 119 wrestling matches in a row.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

+1

By the same token, they need at least 30 more wins to tie the record. Cael Sanderson won 119 wrestling matches in a row.

Correction, Dan Gable won 181 matches in a row, so sit back folks, it's going to be a while.

[chseagle]

There was some discussion during the broadcast concerning the era differences between the UCLA 88 win streak & UConn Women's current streak.

Now as far as ESPN is concerned, the next big game is gonna be UConn vs. Stanford on the 30th.

Although the score says otherwise, Florida State did do their best to try & stay in the game.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

As some caller said on the radio, "The women are better at the fundamentals. The fundamentals are boring."

I don't even buy that they are better at the fundamentals. It's just that the fundamentals are all they have. Not a lot of 360 degree tomahawk jams in the women's game.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by just another ref

I don't even buy that they are better at the fundamentals. It's just that the fundamentals are all they have. Not a lot of 360 degree tomahawk jams in the women's game.

It probably depends on how you define fundamentals. FT percentages? Shooting percentages? I'm not sure what those comparisons would reveal, but just thinking "out loud."

[26 Year Gap]

I remember being glued to the TV as Austin Carr made basket after basket. I might scan a headline or maybe not with the UConn win. Probably not since I know the outcome.

"Doesn't that tofu taste just like meat?"

"No. It doesn't."

[Adam]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

I remember being glued to the TV as Austin Carr made basket after basket. I might scan a headline or maybe not with the UConn win. Probably not since I know the outcome.

"Doesn't that tofu taste just like meat?"

"No. It doesn't."

LOL, the true vegetarians I know don't want it to taste like meat.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

LOL, the true vegetarians I know don't want it to taste like meat.

True vegetarians are not a happy lot. As a whole.